#Foraminifera resembling #metal #albumcover #artwork (resurrecting a 🧵 from the birdsite).
A classic to begin with - Orbulina universa as #MorbidAngel’s Altars of Darkness
A Pied-billed #Grebe seen out by Canoa Ranch, southern #Arizona this morning. #Bird #Photography #Birding
A view of the snow-capped #SantaCatalinas #Mountains from the #GouldSimpson building (outside my lab!) & the #UniversityOfArizona campus. Snow in #Tucson!
Nice talk today at our #UAGEOS colloquium by @OceanAndClimate on a new marine ¹⁴C compilation over the last deglaciation that reinforces evidence for slower ocean overturning and older ventilation timescales during the last glacial maximum.
A very interesting study with important paleoceanographic implications out by Jess Conroy and colleagues on how surface-ocean δ¹⁸O in the Galápagos is driven by the velocity of Equatorial Undercurrent waters: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL102074
A Gila #Woodpecker briefly perched outside its #Saguaro cactus home.
V nice work w implications for #paleomonsoon reconstructions by Thejna Tharammal, G. Bala, & Jesse Nusbaumer showing using an isotope-enabled climate simulation, that NE monsoon rains over India can be associated with more negative δ¹⁸O signatures than southwest (summer) monsoon #precipitation in spite of being associated with *lesser* rainfall amounts. Interesting to note that the match (or lack thereof) with observations suggests that we still have some ways to go to understand the isotopic controls on this system (seasonality/events?):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-27905-9.pdf
#IndianMonsoon #ISM #monsoon #isotopes #AtmosphericScience #ClimateScience
Interesting new #journalarticle out by Leupold and colleagues exploring Indian Ocean warmth during the Mid‐Holocene using coral records from Kenya: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28017-0.pdf
A wee little (male) Anna's Hummingbird catching some shade on a sunny #Tucson winter afternoon.
#Birding #AnnasHummingbird #Hummingbird #Hummingbirding #Olympus
Late to the game, but better late than never - here's a list of my top 20 (mostly #metal) albums from 2021 (yes, yes... not 2022 - that one is coming soon!): https://paleowave.net/paleowave/2023/1/2/best-albums-of-2021
#doommetal #sludge #blackmetal #deathmetal #Paleowave
🤘🏽🤘🏽
August 2022: Chasing 🌧️ #monsoon #storms 🌧️ in & around #Tucson with @ChrisATX
#Meteorology #SWUS #Lightning #Storm #StormPhotography #AzWx #MicroFourThirds #OMD #OMDEM1MarkII #Olympus #ShotOnOlympus #Zuiko
Very interesting set of talks at #AGU22 #Climate of the Common Era session this morning. Take-home messages:
- J. Conroy looks at lake sediments in Line Islands spanning last millennium & finds consistent ENSO #hydroclimate response acc. to Line Island corals.
- J. Cole shows Galapagos coral records of last millennium - finds that EP #ENSO (#ElNiño) was 39% (!!) more subdued across last millennium than in 20th century.
- G. Falster finds that there *is* a strong volcanic imprint in the #Pacific Walker Circulation.
- N. Goodkin focuses on reconstructing #NAO tripole SST signals using Atlantic #corals.
Happening now at #AGU22 (E354a): the Emiliani lecture being delivered by @coralsncaves!
Earth/climate scientist at the #UniversityOfArizona (#Tucson).
📝 #GTD
🦜 #birds
🎹 #synths
🎸 #bassguitar
☀️ #mindfulness
📸 #photography
🌡️ #climate & #paleoclimate
🌊 #oceans & #paleoceanography
⚗️ #geochemistry & #biogeochemistry